The Light of Consciousness

The sto­ry of Cre­ation is the sto­ry of the jour­ney of Spir­it through all the many realms of this Uni­verse. From the One, came the many; the count­less many ones who went out on a seem­ing­ly nev­er-end­ing jour­ney of becom­ing. These Mon­ads of Spir­its, these Sparks of the Divine, are found at the heart of every par­ti­cle, being or Ener­gy-Form of the Uni­verse. Tru­ly we need to move away from our dual­is­tic notions of Ener­gy and Form, of Spir­it and Mat­ter, and under­stand that real­ly there is just the One. That Mat­ter is just the dens­est form of Spir­it, as Spir­it is the most ethe­re­al form of Matter.

These sparks of the Divine form the build­ing blocks of Cre­ation, rang­ing from what we know as the sub-atom­ic world of pro­tons, elec­trons, and neu­trons, and on up to the plan­ets, stars, and galax­ies and what­ev­er lies beyond; and that all these amaz­ing man­i­fes­ta­tions of Spir­it-Mat­ter are the body, heart, and mind of the One. We should also under­stand that all these Ener­gy-Forms are just var­ied man­i­fes­ta­tions of Spir­it, and that the whole of Cre­ation is filled with the Light of Con­scious­ness and Uncon­di­tion­al Love of the One. The One is Cre­ation; Cre­ation is the One.

And this is the point of this spe­cial moment in our Zodi­a­cal Year, for today we move from the realm of Tau­rus into the Light that is Gem­i­ni. Because anoth­er way of under­stand­ing Cre­ation is that on one lev­el or con­sid­er­a­tion, the whole of Cre­ation is Con­scious; Cre­ation is the Mind of the One made man­i­fest. Every part of Cre­ation is on some lev­el a form of mind, a form of con­scious­ness, so that the entire­ty of Cre­ation is also the Mind of the One. The Whole Uni­verse is essen­tial­ly the Con­scious­ness of the One; and we should under­stand that the entire hier­ar­chy of Spir­it-Life-Con­scious­ness is exact­ly this, the inter­re­lat­ed and inter­de­pen­dent fields of fields of Ener­gy-Forms that are the Life-Love-Mind of the One.

Why is this impor­tant for Gem­i­ni? Because held with­in the sto­ry of Gem­i­ni we find the ever-renew­ing gift that holds the por­tal to our greater under­stand­ing. Yes, the whole of Cre­ation is formed by many forms of mind in a con­stant jour­ney of self-becom­ing. But there is a point in the pere­gri­na­tions of spir­it through the Uni­verse, in which each class of mon­ads arrives at this spe­cial moment in their jour­ney, when they become not mere­ly aware, but self-aware. That is what we cel­e­brate in Gem­i­ni, the gift of our self-aware consciousness.

Long, long ago, when our inner mon­ad of the Divine Spir­it was ready for this great “quick­en­ing”, for the release of our greater poten­tial, it was then that the torch of Self-Aware­ness was passed to us by those who had walked this path long ago. It was their duty and hon­or to share with us this gift, just as it had been shared with them ages ago. For this is part of the teach­ing too, that all the ones of the One care for one anoth­er, and that all of us become who and what we are to be through our rela­tion­ships and love for one another.

That is why we have these sto­ries that have been passed down to us from our ances­tors, that tell us about this gift of aware­ness. They are the tales held in the myths of Prometheus, of Lucifer, of Quet­zal­coatl, of Loki and the great sto­ry of the Kumaras. Until that moment in our jour­ney, we were aware but some­what asleep as well, and it was at this most con­se­quen­tial gift that we were pulled into “the aware­ness of our aware­ness”, we became self-aware, and this was both joy­ful and very painful too.

Why? Because now we were seem­ing­ly sep­a­rat­ed from the One, and we “fell” into divi­sion as we rose in this new under­stand­ing, and this is part of our sto­ry too. We left behind our inno­cence as we were gift­ed this greater respon­si­bil­i­ty for our fur­ther devel­op­ment. This was when we began to walk the path of being in that great com­pa­ny of awak­en­ing, to be and become self-aware cre­ators in Creation.

With this gift of self-aware­ness, with the dawn­ing of objec­tive con­scious­ness, the next step in our jour­ney was tak­en, as we became aware through the twin pil­lars of Gem­i­ni of the way of the Uni­verse, of the dual­i­ties of cre­ation, of Spir­it and Mat­ter, of Sub­ject and Object, of “this and that”, which began most sim­ply for us in the expe­ri­ence of “I am that, and I am not that”. And it was this, this unceas­ing, inces­sant need to expe­ri­ence Cre­ation in all its com­plex­i­ties, diver­si­ties, cor­re­spon­dences, and con­nec­tions that stirred our glo­ri­ous and self-lumi­nous seed to sprout, because now we had to know, we had to under­stand “how all of this, how all of that”, is.

What we cel­e­brate in Gem­i­ni now, and at this time of year and some­where in your chart this is always true, you should give thanks for this nec­tar of the gods which we know as the Light of Intel­li­gence. But we should always remem­ber that like all spir­i­tu­al gifts, this gift must be under­stood as being found­ed upon and then made real by our love for one anoth­er, just as this gift was giv­en to us by love. Our obser­va­tions and cog­i­ta­tions, our analy­ses, and our deter­mi­na­tions, can­not move us to a deep­er under­stand­ing with­out being teth­ered and shaped, ground­ed and sup­port­ed by our shar­ing and com­par­ing with one anoth­er. For after all, what we real­ly are as humans is this, we are Storytellers.

The sto­ry of our Intel­li­gence, like the sto­ry of our Con­scious­ness, is just that, a sto­ry. If we wish to not fall into error, if we wish to walk the path of the One, then we must keep shar­ing with one anoth­er, we must lis­ten to one anoth­er, we must keep shar­ing our sto­ries with one anoth­er, and by this car­ing and com­pas­sion and shar­ing, we will be able to help one anoth­er to refine our under­stand­ing of our­selves and our world.

For it is most cer­tain­ly true that you will only know your­self, and you will only under­stand your world, when you see the oth­er as your­self. When you look into the eyes of whomev­er is before you, and when you see shin­ing there that sparkling Spir­it of Know­ing, it is then that you will smile and laugh and love with one anoth­er because you know we are the Light which is the Divine, “whose cen­ter is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere”.